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It was exactly 50 years ago, when Udo Jürgens with "Griechischer Wein" released one of his biggest hits. In 1974, he described the feeling of his guest workers in Germany who dreamed of home, of Greece, which would soon become one of their employers' favourite vacation destinations. 1974 was also the year in which the military dictatorship in Hellas ended and the country found its way back to democracy, which was introduced in Athens over 2500 years ago.
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